It’s difficult to find a tomato at the grocery store that tastes the way I remember them. Sure, a few hybrid varieties have been developed for great flavor. However, commercial tomato breeders focus on hybridizing tomatoes to make them symmetrical and red, durable enough to survive the automated harvesting and long-distance shipping, picked green, with no chance to ripen on the vine, and a long shelf life. Unfortunately, something had to go and sadly, for us tomato lovers, it was flavor.
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Rhubarb was legally classified as a fruit in the U.S. in 1947, even though botanically it’s a vegetable! Whatever it may be classified, it’s a wonderful ingredient for cooking, and here are two great recipes to prove it!
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